My name is Linh Dac. This is my home after 31 years on the road to Freedom.

I was born in Viet Nam in a village with over five hundred people. It is a small village with a big mountain in the back called Nui Ba and in the front is a big pond called Ho Xuan Huong.

From the village we have many small roads leading where ever we want to go. The pine trees are tall and deep green all year round with birds making friends to us from the branches in their nests. I love the road that welcomes me in the morning fog, white and chilly in the morning sun. In my imagination the dew drops a like diamonds sparkling in the morning sun. Oh! My younger life was so beautiful.

But all things change! The war on the land was finally over! The VC took over the land and chased us out of our homes. People moved to other places to survive and I was lucky to be able to follow my family to the land of the Free, the United States of America, as a refugee.

Thirty one years went by. I had my own family, my own job and my own place by the river and big mountain. I got a new life, new friends, and most of all I got freedom of thought, in my writing and visits to new and beautiful places.

I welcome you to my home page. Be my friend and walk side by side with me and watch drops of rain from the night sparkle in the morning sun.